> What is the issue that makes booting Linux from a CDROM on Sparc > so complicated?
IMHO[1], is not hard at all. As easy as making CD's for intel. I've only had one problem[2] with Sun Blade 100's, but Thorsten Kukuk (from SuSE) helped me out on this one. > What will it take to make a CDROM that can boot Linux on Sparc > without modifying mkisofs? Or can someone show that this is > not the case? mkiso+silo patch works quite fine. I don't see why we should dump it out. Actually, its a shame that the cdrecord guys don't want to include it. > I want to get this long problem resolved once and for all, but > with so many people holding back on information, it has been so > far hard to do. Does anyone here have information that they are > willing to share on the matter? Could you be a little more specific about the "holding back on information" issue? If haven't tried Debian on sparc in a while, but if you guys are having troubles with booting on some boxes, I would like to help in as mutch as I can (which is not mutch :P ). [1] I'm the mantainer of Splack (A Slackware port for sparc) [2] I haven't tested it on a lot of machines, a. Because the distribution is not very popular, and b. I don't have a lot of sun hardware (specially big and new hw). If Debian users could please test the splack ISO image on there boxes, I will apreciate it a lot. -- Alvaro Figueroa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
